Surah 2. Al-Baqara, Ayah 159
| إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَكْتُمُونَ مَا أَنْزَلْنَا مِنَ الْبَيِّنَاتِ وَالْهُدَىٰ مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا بَيَّنَّاهُ لِلنَّاسِ فِي الْكِتَابِ ۙ أُولَٰئِكَ يَلْعَنُهُمُ اللَّهُ وَيَلْعَنُهُمُ اللَّاعِنُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | 'inna 'alladhena yaktumon maa anzalnaa min al- bayyinaat wa- al- hudaa min bacdi maa bayyannaa -hu li- an- naas fe al- kitaab 'olaa'ika yalcan -hum 'allaah wa- yalcan -hum al- laacinon |
| Pickthall | : | Those who hide the proofs and the guidance which We revealed, after We had made it clear in the Scripture: such are accursed of Allah and accursed of those who have the power to curse. |
| Asad | : | BEHOLD, as for those who suppress aught of the evidence of the truth and of the guidance which We have bestowed from on high, after We have made it clear unto mankind through the divine writ - these it is whom God will reject, and whom all who can judge will reject.129 |
| Malik | : | Those who conceal the clear proofs and the guidance, after We have made it clear in the Book for mankind, will have Allah's curse and that of those who are entitled to curse; |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Those who conceal the clear (Signs) We have sent down and the guidance after We have made it clear for the people in the book on them shall be Allah's curse and the curse of those entitled to curse. 163 |
Note - 129Lit., "whom all who reject will reject" - i.e., all
righteous persons who are able to judge moral issues.
God's rejection (la'nah) denotes "exclusion from His
grace" (Manar II, 50). In classical Arabic usage, the
primary meaning of la'nah is equivalent to ib'ad
("estrangement" or "banishment"); in the terminology of
the Qur'an, it signifies "rejection from all that is
good" (Lisan al-'Arab). According to Ibn 'Abbas and
several outstanding scholars of the next generation, the
divine writ mentioned here is the Bible; thus, the above
verse refers to the Jews and the Christians.
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Note - 163Those entitled to curse: i.e., angels and mankind (see
ii. 161 below): the cursed ones will deprive themselves
of the protection of God and of the angels, who are the
Powers of God, and of the good wishes of mankind, because
by contumaciously rejecting Faith, they not only sin
against God but are false to their own manhood, which God
created in the "best of moulds" (Q xcv. 4). The terrible
curses denounced in the Old Testament are set out in
Deut. xxviii. 15-68. There is one difference. Here it
is for the deliberate rejection of Faith, a theological
term for the denying of our higher nature. There it is
for a breach of the lease part of the ceremonial Law.
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Lit., "whom all who reject will reject" - i.e., all righteous persons who are able to judge moral issues. God's rejection (la'nah) denotes "exclusion from His grace" (Manar II, 50). In classical Arabic usage, the primary meaning of la'nah is equivalent to ib'ad ("estrangement" or "banishment"); in the terminology of the Qur'an, it signifies "rejection from all that is good" (Lisan al-'Arab). According to Ibn 'Abbas and several outstanding scholars of the next generation, the divine writ mentioned here is the Bible; thus, the above verse refers to the Jews and the Christians. |
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Those entitled to curse: i.e., angels and mankind (see ii. 161 below): the cursed ones will deprive themselves of the protection of God and of the angels, who are the Powers of God, and of the good wishes of mankind, because by contumaciously rejecting Faith, they not only sin against God but are false to their own manhood, which God created in the "best of moulds" (Q xcv. 4). The terrible curses denounced in the Old Testament are set out in Deut. xxviii. 15-68. There is one difference. Here it is for the deliberate rejection of Faith, a theological term for the denying of our higher nature. There it is for a breach of the lease part of the ceremonial Law. |
